Jan. 12, 2026

YouTube Ep 6 | The Louvre Heist EXPOSED!

YouTube Ep 6 | The Louvre Heist EXPOSED!

We normally post these on Friday, but I screwed up and it didn't post. My apologies. Trey We discover the truth behind the greatest heist of the last century!

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We normally post these on Friday, but I screwed up and it didn't post. My apologies. Trey

We discover the truth behind the greatest heist of the last century!

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It is time believe your worries outside and laugh with

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us inside the treehouse. I'm Dan O'Malley, along with Trey

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Trenholm and Raj Sharma expectations versus reality. The city that

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does it the best or the worst, depending on your expectations,

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is Hollywood. Hollywood has set some amazing expectations for us,

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but then something happens in real life to dash all

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those misconceptions that we've consumed thanks to Hollywood. And the

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best recent example I can offer up of that is

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the robbery at the Louver, because Hollywood set the expectations

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for all of this that it would be really, really

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hard to break into the Louver and steal crown jewels

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from Napoleon's time.

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Reality of the is all you need is a ladder

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and a couple of hammers, and we're all stunned. And

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I don't know who's more stunned, the Louver or the

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rest of the world, because I'm guessing the guys that

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did it were pretty much they got what they expected

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because they had the plan already.

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They seemed to know.

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Yeah, I love that it just took a ladder.

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All the security measures that they have at the Louver

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They're just like, you know what, no one's going to

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use the ladder, and these guys are like, hole, my beer.

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Is it possible that security at the Louver also watched

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the same movies we did and thought, well, we have

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to make sure we have all these intricate security systems

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in place. We got to make sure that all the

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laser beams are Catherine Zada Jones proved, we got to

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make sure all the tunnels are concreted in. But they

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didn't stop to think about what happens if someone uses

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a ladder.

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I mean, yeah, a little more than a ladder, but

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you know, but I mean here, the number one problem

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is the security at the fucking Love is like the

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security at CVS. They're you're they're basically going like, oh well,

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if they're robbing you, just let them take it. I mean,

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they bullied the fucking security guards. I mean, I understand

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if you're you know, guarded guarding the you know, the

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lotion and and toothpaste at CVS. But when you're guarding

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guarding the Mona Lisa and the Crown Jewels, shoot the motherfuckers.

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That's why they give you the gun. Yeah.

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I don't know if they even had guns. But how

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French of that?

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How how Frinch could you get?

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Wait?

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Yeah, Rose, are you talking about the robbers or the

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security guards?

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One of them had a hammer, So again, are.

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We talking about the security guards or the robbers.

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The robbers won because they they went to a home

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depot first. Uh, I know.

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I never in a million years when I have thought

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that a successful robbery at the louver would have been

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in essence of smash and grab. Never in a million years.

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And then they fled on motorcycles so they could so

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they the police cars couldn't even catch them because the

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motorcycles were and they dropped one.

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Of the most expensive valuable items that they stole.

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They dropped the crown, the Crown of the Crown jewels. Yeah, yeah,

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I will say the motorcycle x Phil was very Hollywood.

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That part seemed to be pretty accurate. Used the motorcycles

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to get away from police in Europe, That part worked well.

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Have y'all seen the video they just released of they

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basically are their escape so it was latter esque, but

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it's a slide that you would slide furniture down. Okay,

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they basically wait.

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So they're movers and they just you know, either they're

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movers themselves, or they took a moving truck from an

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apartment mover company that's used to sliding furniture down from

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you know, floors above one.

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Yeah, that's exactly that's exactly.

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What they did.

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Some best plans are the most simple.

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Now, where do you sell the stuff?

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Is there like they can't like, well, they said that

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they'll have to take apart everything and then you know,

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recut stones and everything else unless there is some you know,

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and now this is where you get Hollywood esque of

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is there some you know, crazy billionaire who's want to

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want to have some you know, extravagant private collection of

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stolen goods.

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That is going to just have them?

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A Saudi sultan somewhere on his yacht.

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Why is he going to be brown people, Dan? Why

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couldn't just be a crazy white guy I want to

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say brown people sultan is white?

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Crazy white guys are too busy shooting up places to

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take time in stolen property. So the sultans are the

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ones that have all this, have all this you know, income,

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with the oil and everything. It's like, you know, we'll

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just get some new jewelry. Tell that to Elon Musk

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he doesn't buy jewelry. He's got fourteen hundred kids. He

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has to he has to do something for them.

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He's got saving up.

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For all the weddings. Look, we're getting sidetracked here. The

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point is it's the Hollywood versus reality expectations. Everything I didn't.

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I knew they had dropped a very important artifact that

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they had stolen. I didn't realize it was basically the

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most valuable one.

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So yeah, yeah, and how do you how do you

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live that down?

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When you get back to like bad guy headquarters and

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I'm like, so, where's the crown?

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And You're like, Steve, did you drop the crown?

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Like Jacques, you had one fucking job.

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You'll put in pounds. You don't hold you a hand,

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all right, that's not my really bad accident. Went from

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bad friends to sort of a bad swords nigger.

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There.

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That's not a crown, Steve, that's a hammer. I told

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you to drop the hammer, keep the brown. How did

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you fuck this up?

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Steve's Steve's dislets.

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That's time no one with a learning disability, Okay.

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Uh. The other thing that usually happens in films and

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these heist things is there's usually like with inner poll

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or whatever. There's always a set number of people that

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are only these are the only people capable of carrying

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out heists of this magnitude kind of a thing. And

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this part kind of has happened because Trey, you saw

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this and sent to me, who are the Pink Panther Gang?

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And are they behind the Louver robbery? This is exciting

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the Pink Panthers.

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That's the most French thing you can do. Right.

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There is to be a gang, not the Blood's, not

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the crips.

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What are you? Is it? Pink Panther Holse, You're a gang?

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And look, there's only been so many notorious gangs throughout

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the history of man. You basically have a blank slate

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to choose whatever badass gang name you want. And now

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all sat around, I'm assuming smoking and came up with

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the Pink Panthers.

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How do you get jumped into that gang? That's the

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softly like a bitch.

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I mean, did they pick the name or were they

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like the puffy coat bandit?

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Did they just get That is true because like in

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the American on the American side of things, if you

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rob a bank, the FBI is the one that typically

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gives you your name. You don't, it's and that's the

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way it's supposed to be. Is you don't choose a nickname,

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the peak, it's as signed to you, right, So I

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don't know if I don't know if the French do.

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The same way.

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Eight priceless treasures from the Apollo Gallery and the world

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famous Louver have been stolen by chainsaw wielding robbers. Okay,

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that's a new wrinkle.

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I didn't know.

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I didn't realize they had chainsaws as well. Authorities are

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scrambling to find the gang behind the heist that targeted

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high security display cases in the famous French museum. The criminals,

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who disguise themselves as construction workers on a cherry picker,

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are still on the run. Kind of brilliant. Authorities fear

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the one of a kind and therefore highly recognizable items

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will be melted down and destroyed before thieves can sell them.

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There are fears that those responsible could be part of

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the Pink Panthers, a gang which previous stole twenty three

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million pounds of diamonds that's dollar pounds, not actual pounds

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of diamonds from Graft jewelers in London in two thousand

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and three so either they've been on a bit of

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a hiatus.

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Well, I mean that that kind of a heist can

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afford you at twenty two year weight.

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Well, hey, everybody, we're getting the band back together. A

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lot of Panthers, you're back, Sorry, Trey God.

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A lot of times some of these high end highsts

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they don't make public just for fear of copycat or

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anything else.

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Yeah, copy Panther. Sorry, I had to say. Many members

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of the gang are ex soldiers of extensive backgrounds in

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paramilitary training. So could the infamous gang be behind the

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louver theft. Members of the Pink Panthers hill from former

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Yugoslavian states, including Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia. Enterpole estimates that

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there are approximately eight hundred key members of the excuse

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me criminal network? Why the Panthers? Stop it? If if

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they're the Pink Panthers, you say the whole name. You

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can't just say the Panthers. That's different expectations. The Pink

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Panthers have a history of targeting museums as well as jewelers.

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In two thousand and eight, a museum in Switzerland had

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a Monet van go Seisan and a Degas stolen with

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an estimated worth of one hundred nineteen million, one hundred

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and sixty two and eighty pounds. Also credit to me

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for saying all those names properly. Others would have said

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dakas I said dega because I know, yes, thank you

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to give me, give me the give me all the claps.

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I appreciate that you want all the claps claps plural,

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I don't want the singular one, which is the viral.

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I give you all the clap. I don't want that.

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No one wants all the clap claps yes, clap no,

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Uh okay. So the Pink Panther Gang, they're wondering, are

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they the ones that did it? I'm wondering if you

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call yourselves the Pink pant at their game, aren't you

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required to use the theme song as you carry out

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your nefarious plans?

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Yes?

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And don't you have to have like the cigarette with

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the little filter and I don't know what that's called,

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a little too, like the little filter that is filter.

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It's just a big monocle filter, monocle array, of course.

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I mean.

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And you have to have the song, which which, judging

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by the way they went, I think you could have done.

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It because Here's where their favorite part of this is.

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They're dressed as construction workers. They use a cherry picker

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on a ladder to get up to the second floor

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to then make injury, smash stuff, and then slide back

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down the apparatus. The Pink Panther song Let's all do It.

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Momentarily that theme song, beats per minute matches about how

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long it would take the slow moving cherry picker to

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raise itself up to the second floor, giving security ample

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time to wonder, Hey, what are these guys up to.

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We don't have any maintenance scheduled for today, just slowly

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creeping up.

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I clearly they they don't communicate well with security because

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they didn't really seem to notice, I mean, raise a

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cherry picker. I mean the only Hollywood thing ask about

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it is the saw they used to cut the circular,

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you know, hole in the window, or they crawled through.

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That was kind of cool. But again the security, no taser,

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no pepper spray. It's something.

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Did they move, did they react?

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They said they were protecting the crowd, and they basically

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they bullied them with a hammer, and so they ran off.

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They're protecting the crowd from all the flying glass about

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the smashing in the Robbie. Yeah, stand back, we don't

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have me to get cut.

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All I can see is the you know, Kevin Bacon

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and animal House, stay room. There's nothing to see here

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as the crowd, I don't know if you've seen the

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videos the other crowds running down the hallways.

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The only thing better would have been if the security

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guards turned around and said let me help.

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Yeah.

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I like the fact that they were dressed as construction

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workers and one was an Indian chief, one was a cop.

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It was basically the village people of robberies.

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They all just it goes from They all could have

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broken out into one line dance and it would have

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made it still would have Yeah.

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you and then you break out the horns start y

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m c A.

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Security guards leading everyone as everybody. God, what an absolute dumb,

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dumb thing. Because when I saw the headline, I was like, oh,

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this is cool, this is going to be good. Because

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I've seen National Treasure and I've seen uh brain farting

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on the name of the movie right now, But the

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one with Catherine Zada Jones and Sean Connery where they

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have to pull off the you know, the big heist

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thing where he creepily watches her do yoga between laser lines.

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It was just kind of weird.

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But anyway, I think we all creepily watched that one.

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That was not just Sean Connery, that was all of us.

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Rewind play, rewind play. Yeah, I had it on BHS,

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of course, But of course I can't remember the name

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of the damn movie off the top of my head

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right now. But anyway, I've got too much Peak Panther

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rolling around in there. So the gang, the people, the

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suspects still on the loose. Eight objects were taken as

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sapphire diadem, a necklace, and a single earring from a

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matching set linked to the nineteenth century French queen's Marie

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Amelie and Hortense. What a bunch of jerks you're gonna

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take the one? You read this sounds like a dick move.

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Well, I mean maybe they were just big fans of

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the eighties and they're just gonna put it in their

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left ear and you wake them up before you go go.

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See, we just cracked the case. The secret buyer.

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Boy George the Culture Club is the one that got

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all the jewelry.

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Or that's another thing they dropped and then you know

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they got there. Really you couldn't get the set, just

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the one.

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Really, what am I going to do with this?

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Go back and get it. See if it's in the road,

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because no one's the French. Somebody just kicked it to

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the side. You all right? What bounds everywhere?

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I don't want to throw too much on inner Pole's

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plate here. But there was another robbery. There was another

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theft recently. This one occurred in the United States. Here

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we go, there's video of this one.

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County those autographs to give us those numbers, ny Am

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got bumped, We'll go back to the line to shoot too.

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So now that you've seen it, I'll reset this. As

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it says in the caption, Sophie cunning him sat on

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the cameraman's face and he did nothing to stop her.

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Let's watch this again, Nick.

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She's counting those autographs to give us those numbers. Donnie

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Am got bumped. We'll go back to the line to

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shoot too.

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That there was a theft of innocence for that poor

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man's face. Yeah, I have a second angle on this,

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by the way, I should probably be actually clarify, it's

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not a second angle. It's just more of a zoomed

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in so we can analyze it more professionally. Actually, it

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appears a computer grimlin ate the other angle I thought

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I had. So let's just rewatch this lovely one here.

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Nick's counting those autographs to give us those numbers. Donnie,

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am got bumped.

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We'll go back to the line to shoot too. I

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love how Sophie puts her hand in her chest. Oh

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oh oh, I'm so sorry. But that cameraman. I don't

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know if he's exemplifying outstanding professionalism or if he's just like,

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whatever I do, don't move, don't say a word, because

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if I do, she may get up faster.

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Now that cameraman's going. I have covered some of the

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shittiest basketball for a while, and I finally got rewarded

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for my toils.

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A slim dunk for all those layups.

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I've been sitting on my ass court side for countless

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basketball games, and this is the greatest moment of my career.

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The only thing better would have been if he had

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said no, no, no, come back.

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Only anything better if he had grabbed her hips and go, oh, you're.

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Not moving your mind.

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Now, I'm sure her wife would be pissed.

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She's great, okay, and he gets to say if it sits,

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it fits. I know it's supposed to go the other

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way around. But whatever.

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Well, hopefully there was there wasn't an over under on

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faces set for her, because you know, then she's gonna

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get suspended.

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I'm going to assume this has something to do with

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the NBA bettings gandle Oh my god, have I only

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I only saw a brief headline yesterday that said there's

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another NBA bettings gandal. I'm like, well, I'm not shocked.

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Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, but I mean some of it.

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There's two aspects to it that are just the the

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game stuff is because NBA really is probably the only

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sport you can an individual can affect the game, but

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especially now that there are individual prop bets. So I

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forgot the player's name, but you know, there's one guy,

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all of a sudden, there's a big bump in his activity,

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like and it's all the under Oh, he'll score less

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than nine points, he'll do less than you know this

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many rebounds, and like ten minutes into the game, he

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just takes himself out of Oh, I'm hurt.

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Yeah, man, I can do that.

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Yeah, I tell you, I could go into an NBA

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game and I will get the under on everything.

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You know.

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It's like I think it's Chauncey Billups and then I

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mean there were there are a few names that you

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know of a players and coaches. But probably the more

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fascinating part about it is this poker angle that these

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NBA players were having these high stake poker games backed

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by four out of the five crime families of New York. Oh,

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but they're they're using technology like X ray tables and

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cards that have infrared sensors, contact lenses that are are

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can see the infrared cards. This technology where they basically

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as they're shuffling, it knows what order the cards are

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in and how they're going to be dealt. So it

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gives these somebody an ear piece in and it would

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give you like one beat, two beat, four beat, whatever,

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and that was the hand that's gonna win.

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Okay. So while robbing the Louver seems to be much

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easier than we all thought, trying to rip off Vegas

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or Atlantic City still quite difficult.

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This isn't well, some of this the point point spread

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stuff actually No, it's just finding players to do it.

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It's it's not the poker stuff in the technolog Yeah.

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The poker stuff. So these were all private games. This

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wasn't at a casino or anything else. These were And

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like when I say high stake, I think one guy

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lost one point eight million and one in one night.

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Yeah, Chauncey Billups. One hand was fifty grand he won.

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But like it's mind boggling that, you know, give it

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to the crime family. They're they're gonna figure out a

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way to rob rob their once. You know, they're mad

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that they got rid of all the casinos, so now

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they're gonna rob them.

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Yeah. It is fascinating though, that you've got so much

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betting now is in sports, and a story like this

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is everything that allegedly at league levels NBA, NFL, MLB

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have wanted to avoid any appearance, any possibility of an

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open door for impropriety. But now you've got the actual

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networks like ESPN jumping into the betting foray with ESPN

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bet creative name by the way, because I guess the

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rest of the world is like, look, it's happening. People

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are gambling anyway, we might as well, you know, sink

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our teeth into it to try to get a piece

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of that pie. And now this happens, and I'm not shocked.

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No, And who's the league that's been on the vanguard

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of this stuff.

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It's the NBA.

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They're in they've gotten in bed with the gambling companies.

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But that's the one of all the sports, the NBA

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is the one sport where you can really you could

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fix an outcome mm hmm, especially now that with the

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individual prop bets. Yeah, but all I mean, and this

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goes back, I mean, I forgot which one. You know

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it happened in college you know college basketball, where you

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know they were paying a couple guys, and a lot

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of times it's not so much throwing. You know, there's

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a point spread. So let's say, you know, if the

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other team is plus seven, oh, you know, you miss

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a free throw or you miss a layup, and you

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know you only win by five.

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And there's always these there's always these conspiracy theories flying

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around with some of these games. And this is really

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true that, like people say with the NFL all the time,

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but it's really hard to do with the NFL where

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they'll be like, okay, the over under is this and

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then mysteriously or magically there's a penalty called It's like

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I said, it's conspiracy theory stuff, especially on the NFL.

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Also, and this goes back whether it is you know,

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Vegas now hires mi I T level mathematicians. And but

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going back to you know, Roxy Roxbury of you know,

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these guys were savants when it came to making point spreads.

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And in the NFL now especially you you almost are

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guaranteed a trash time touchdown mm hmm. And that'll a

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lot of times put you you know, over under you

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know whatever you know with the spread.

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Yeah, it's those trash time touchdowns that'll change the over

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and under whatever one thought was going to happen. They

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thought it was locked in, it wasn't because garbage time touchdown. Uh.

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And then the same thing with the point spread. It's

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like I'm gonna cover I had I had the Buccaneers

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plus seven, I'm gonna cover. Oh no, you got too

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excited too early.

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But yeah, well, I mean because like you said, in football,

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it's really hard.

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To mess with.

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I mean, I guess if with individual prop bets, if

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you had let's say a receiver and they just dropped

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the pass.

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Yeah, maybe, but there's a good chance.

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To explain a lot of seed lambs drops because because

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he'll make a really difficult catch and then he'll be like,

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just oh, where did it go? Like on the easy ones,

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it's like okay, now I'm now I'm suspicious.

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But with the NBA, there's just so many ways you

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could do it, and that that was always the fear.

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Yeah, well it's back again.

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Yeah, and that's it's gonna.

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It'll be curious how they deal with this, right.

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I mean arrests were made. I'm assuming everybody's posted their

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bonds and they're out. But like you were saying, it's

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four out of the five, it just reminds me of

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tried it, Like four out of five Montfield families h

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support basketball gambling.

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Well after the fifth one is like another one? Why

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didn't you call us?

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What? What? What? What?

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We're not good enough for you?

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I smell a rat. I think what happened was the

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fifth family found out they weren't involved, they were not

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included in this lucrative situation, and they said, hello, FBI.

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No, they would just have to say that out loud

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because their house is bugged.

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Yeah, yeah, you're right.

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Why am I even trying to like mind it out

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with my hands or anything like hey I got or

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just walk out to the van be like hey, I

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got a tip for it. Which, by the way, if

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if you are an FBI surveillance van, isn't it your

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responsibility to name your own network FBI surveillance van because

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people wouldn't expect you to do that these days on

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the Wi Fi things.

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The wife flies gotcha.

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Like the mafia. They they're looking down on the available

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networks in their area, like, oh, this one says f

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FBI surveillance man. Ah, that's just a joke.

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One.

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Why does it say no really after it?

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Seriously?

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Outside confessed four crimes?

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Why is it named Fredo?

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